Nearly 90 optical scanners malfunctioned during the election, and one voter even got her hand stuck in an optical scanner. Some poll workers failed to adjust the vote counters when the machines jammed, according to Daniel Baxter, elections director for the city of Detroit.

State law disqualifies the recounting of precincts where voting machine printouts don’t match with ballots. That happened at 59.2% of Detroit’s 662 precincts.

What’s unclear is whether the city even tested the voting machines before the election, as required.

On Monday, Michigan began a statewide recount because Donald Trump won by about 0.2% – a razor-thin margin that could change. But the chances of the Clinton picking up enough votes have diminished because of the ballot problems in Detroit.

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